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(Zoöl.) A marsupial of Australia (Dasyurus macrurus), about the size of a cat.
Quoll
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| Tiger Quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Dasyuromorphia |
| Family: | Dasyuridae |
| Subfamily: | Dasyurinae |
| Tribe: | Dasyurini |
| Genus: | Dasyurus É. Geoffroy, 1796 |
| Type species | |
| Dasyurus viverrinus Anon., 1791 (= Didelphis viverrina Shaw, 1800) |
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Quolls or native cats (genus Dasyurus) are carnivorous marsupials, native to Australia and Papua New Guinea. Adults are between 25 and 75 cm long, with hairy tails about 20-35 cm long. Females have six to eight nipples and develop a pouch—which opens towards the tail—only during the breeding season, when they are rearing young. Quolls live both in forests and in open valley land. Though primarily ground-dwelling, they have developed secondary arboreal characteristics. They do not have prehensile tails, but do have ridges on the pads of their feet.[2] Their molars and canines are strongly developed.
The tribe Dasyurini to which quolls belong also includes the Tasmanian Devil, antechinuses, the Kowari, and mulgaras.[1]
Taxonomy
Within the genus Dasyurus, the following species exist:[1]
- New Guinean Quoll, Dasyurus albopunctatus, New Guinea
- Western Quoll or Chuditch, Dasyurus geoffroii, western Australia
- Northern Quoll, Dasyurus hallucatus, northern Australia
- Tiger Quoll or Spotted Quoll, Dasyurus maculatus, eastern Australia
- Bronze Quoll, Dasyurus spartacus, New Guinea
- Eastern Quoll, Dasyurus viverrinus, Tasmania (formerly mainland eastern Australia)
There is at least one fossil species from the Pliocene, that is D. dunmalli, described by Bartholomai in 1971[3]. The name Dasyurus means "hairy-tail",[4] and was coined by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1796. The first species described, the Tiger Quoll, was originally placed in the American opossum genus Didelphis.
References
- ^ a b c Groves, C. (2005). Wilson, D. E., & Reeder, D. M.. ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 24-25. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3.
- ^ McCay, George (1999). Mammals. Fog City Press.
- ^ http://www.helsinki.fi/~mhaaramo/metazoa/deuterostoma/chordata/synapsida/metatheria/notometatheria/dasyuromorphia/dasyurinae.html Mikkos taxonomy
- ^ Serena, M.; Soderquist, T. (1995). "Western Quoll". in Strahan, Ronald. The Mammals of Australia. Reed Books. pp. 62–64.
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